The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-02
BRIC-A.BRAC.
THE BOYS WHO ARE WANTED.

Bend your sinews to the task,
"Put your shoulder to the wheel"
Though your duty may be hard
Look not on it as an i'll;
If 1t be an honest task,
Do 1t with an honest will.
High-water mark-Your chin.
The turning point-The pitchfork.
Stage struck-Hit by an omnibus.
The health question-How are you?
. Posing for effect-A goat ready to butt.
Superior blankets are now woven of cow
hair.
Labor has bitter roots but sweet fruits as
well.
Straws shows which way the sherry cob
Ter goes.
The black silk hat can ego to the head"
once more.
The sky, unlike man, is most cheerful
when bluest.
He who foresees calamities suffers them
twice over.
Jones says the only trouble with his baby
Is that 1t Is too high toned.
1t Is not good way to preserving your
! fingers to have them ''jamhIed."
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again"
Provided the yeast is not sour.
The man who wouldn't wonder" must
| be the LATEST man in the world.
| When man starts out to paint town
red, he does not do it in water colors.
Why is an infirm old man like o musical
character? Each require staff
There are few girls that can make per,
feet mash when potato Is the subject.
Alaska is soon to have newspaper In
that cold country it ought to he a blanket
sheet.
"How shall slecp?" asks a correspond
ent. Try to stay awake to catch some
train.
90, N.Y. exclaimed Edith, upon hel
first entrance into the rink; 'they're all on
Castors' ant they?"
The gravest beast is an ass, the gravcst
bird is an owl, the gravest fish is an oyster,
and the gravest man is fool.
A young lady calls her beau "honey-
sucklc," because he is always hanging over
the front ratings"
"Im at your service, madam" said the
witty burglar when caught with his arms
full of silverware.
The usual course is to draw before COM
mcncing to paint, but some women reverse
|
"Who was the straightcst man in the
| Bible?" "Joscph." "Why?" "Becruse Pha-
raoh made ruler of him.
The Duke of Argyll says the world is
ten million years old. How did he find
outY
Let your heart be as large as the world,
but let there be no room in it to hold the
memory Of n wrong.
The turning point in woman's life
When she makes oyer that old dress,
'wrongsidc out"
A boy is called "a young hopeful" be.
cause the one hopeful thing about him is
that he will not always be young.
Nervous Grip wants to know how to
cure "a tickling sensation about the face" "
Get him to shave off his moustache.
"hla, why is that darkey equivalent to
conundrumY I'm sure l don't know,
my son" Because he's angina. See?"
They are now making bricks of cork, but
the bricks carried in hats late mt night will
continue to be made from the old material.
We suppose our sailors could chew shay
ings on pinch, because they are used to
eating aboard.
Dr. Hammond says eating mutton will
make women handsome. Hence their par
tlallty Tor shceplSh young men.
'Tis an i'll thing to be ashamed of ones
poverty, but much worse not to make use
OF lawful endeayors to avoid it.
There Is q town in Arlcansaw which
struggles under the name Of "Limburgcr. ."
| Wen wager scent that it's live town.
"Pa, want to go whaling" "All right,
my SON" And in few minutes he was
busy in the woodshed, with lots of blubbcr
! II men knew as much at forty years of
age rs they thought they knew at twenty
there would be more statesmen in the
country.
A turnover is so called because when
eaten at nightit makes person turn over
| about s. en- hundred times before he can
go to slccp.
Revenge is sweet. First Baseballist-
All, ha! hear you fellows were licked yes
terday. Second Baseballist-Yes, but YOU
just ought to have seen the umpire.
A New Jersey defaulter tried to kill him
self after being Informed of his crime. The
news should have been broken to him moro
gently, as he had probably not heard of it.
Yes" sighed old Mrs. Gumbo '1hat
accident was horrible. When read about
it, 1t exaggerated me so that couldn't dc
compose myself for several hours"
| An Eastern paper says that dozen pretty
| girls from New Hayen are taking tramI
through the Adirondack Mountains That
tramp must be having good time.
"You may speak" said a fond mother
''about people having strength of mind
| but when 1t comes to strength Of don't
mind, my son William surpasses everybody
| I ever knew"
You say you are in love with two girls,
both beautiful one "divinely tall, =" and the
other "a perfect little fairy" Marry the
little one. She won't need 50 much stuff
| for q dress.
A little girl went into a drug store, the
other day, and said to the proprietor, in Il
half whisper, eff a good little girl amt got
no money, how much chewing gum do you
give her for nothing?'
A young lady on being asked what bust
ness her sweetheart was in, and not liking
to say he was bottling soda and mineral
water on Washington Street, answered,
"IIe is practicing fzztion."
"Tell me, papa, are you still growing?'
said charming little girl to her father,
whose badness was assuming alarming pro